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Online Survey Report 2020-2024 Budget Survey: Climate Emergency Bold Steps Each year, the City is required to update and approve a financial plan for the upcoming five year period. This plan approves spending and identifies the funding sources for City operations and capital projects, and must be approved by May 15th of each year. We are currently in the capital planning phase of the process, with work on the operating plan coming in February/March 2020. New Westminster City Council has recently declared a climate emergency and created a budget framework that prioritizes capital projects which support the City's Climate Action Seven Bold Steps. As part of this phase of the budget process, we want your input on the Seven Bold Steps to not only determine which Steps are most important to you but also ensure that the initiatives associated with each will help the City address the climate emergency response. The New Westminster 2020-2024 financial plan community consultation includes several components - this online survey is just one of the many ways to get involved. Upcoming opportunities include a capital program workshop on January 9, 2020, and an open delegation at the January 13, 2020, Council meeting. To learn more about ways to participate and have your say, please visit the Budget 2020 website. This first section gives you an overview of how City finances work, and where we are at. The City’s Five-Year Financial Plan – both the capital and operating budgets – outlines where the City is prioritizing its efforts via its spending authority. The three main components of the financial plan are the City’s capital programs, the operating programs and reserves. Staff have identified a budget of approximately $467M for capital spending 2020-2024. Of that, approximately $260M is related to projects that are a climate action response. In November 2019, City Council approved the Seven Bold Steps to address the climate emergency, and a framework to guide the development of the City's Financial Plan to ensure that our resources are allocated with a climate emergency lens. The next few pages give you an overview of the steps and their development and asks your input on each step. 1) Do you agree that this Bold Step (#1 – Carbon Free Corporation) supports the City's Climate Emergency Response? Respondents: 289 Choice Percentage Count Yes 72.66% 210 No 21.11% 61 I do not have an opinion 6.23% 18 Total 100% 289 2) Do you have any comments related to this bold step? Respondents: 104 2) Do you have any comments related to this bold step? This is total fantasy and will have no effect on this so called emergency. Stop being radical far left Personal Information and try actually do things that improve the city and life for residents. It will add cost to living in the city. More tax, more user fees. I just have concern about replacing the city fleet. we should only replace vehicles reaching the end of their life cycle. Not scrapping them all at once please. I like the fact that the people will have a brand new facility but the waste of materials from the old one will go to the landfill. Not sure how this waste is good for the climate I think this is a great step into the right direction. Thank you for all the hard work that you all do. This is very black and white, it is too bad that options are not presented. The more energy efficient solutions are more expensive ones to buy and install. What effect will this have on the day to day operations budget? What work will be cut back or postponed? The Low carbon city fleet is not a priority and vehicles and be swapped to electric vehicles as the old gas powered vehicles become unusable. Electric School buses to and from NWSS will reduce traffic throughout the city. There are other more pressing issues than this It is difficult to see the construction activity related to the replacement of the Canada games pool ever being offset by the buildings increased energy efficiency. Seems at odds with moving the recycling depot away from a central location, causing longer car trips, in order to facilitate more parking of all things. Will elected officials and employees participate by reducing their carbon footprint by walking, bicycling and use of public transportation, will incentives such as transit passes be used? Capital budget for new community facilities is way too high. We are a small community. This is more than 1 million dollars per resident. What percentage of residents use these facilities? Far too much capital when other basic infrastructure improvements need attention. I am against this extravagant spending. I'm pleased to see that they're very ambitious and well co-ordinated. None I think you are being silly. Focus on services you should be able to provide but don’t, such as clearing snow from public walkways and bus stops Maybe up the price of parking permits. if have 4 people in a household - then 1 permit should be $50, 2nd permit $100 and 3rd $150? I agree but believe there should be more bike lanes for high school students travelling all over new west to the High school. These kids are future commuters, let's get them in the routine of biking now to decrease cars on the road later. This will also decrease the costs of parents having to drive or send their kids to daycare and will increase these childrens independance. Does using structural wood products really lower environmental impact? We should be sure, and if they do not reduce environmental impact we should use other materials that do. that's the best you can do? I thought this was supposed to be an emergency. Building expensive new facilities generates a lot of GHGs and I’m not convinced it is the top response to an emergency. The removal of the cities Recycling Depot is a disappointment and directly goes against the Bold Steps. People now have to travel 2,3, 4 times farther and get stuck into a hard to access grid lock zone to drop of recyclables. Driving up emissions. I expect large dumping of recyclables either into general trash or on city property. Forcing city to haul it and cost tax payers more. No new spending please I do have an opinion. I believe you should concentrate on ways to reduce spending and reduce taxes. This type of survey and having staff to review and support it is a waste of taxpayers money, in my opinion It is amazing - keep it up. Will this also be removing natural gas from heating Corporate buildings? please stop using words like BOLD and Climate Emergency Responce, there is nothing bold about anything the city is doing and no we are not leaders of anything. I do not agree with closing the recycling depot by the Canada Games Pool. As only a very small portion of the capital budget for new facilities is related to climate action, it is quite inaccurate to suggest that over $100M of the total capital budget is dedicated to climate action under this move. The mayor and council were elected by the citizens to manage our city. If you choose to be political or climate activists, please do it in your spare time and dime. Stop your reckless spending Too many vehicles travel through our city everyday and there appears to be no way to eliminate the problem as our city in the middle of commuters daily routes. I do agree going green is important but at what cost. Many of our roads are in dire need of repair such as Sixth Ave from 12th St to 18th St Very short sighted to say you want to green and yet in your over zealous potential budget you are removing our WELL USED recycle yard. Occasional pop ups will not work and travelling to another municipality does not make sense. Zero consultation with the taxpayers. Our taxes are out of control. City is beyond its scope Do not pour money into climate change as we have next to no impact on the planet. Complete waste of money. Theow support behind pipelines so we can get 3rd world countries off coal. Be bolder! Ensure safe AAA cycling facilities allow for safe cycling access to new facilities. Buildings should be LEED Platinum. It’s not enough to say “energy efficient”—all modern buildings are more efficient than those built 30+ years ago... The replacement pool has taken too long to be built. The recycling depot should be accommodated at this site in a smaller modified version! The engineering dept has been working on reduced fossil fuels for (20+) many years thus this is not a BOLD step. These steps are not bold but rather typical of what you see for new civic facilities. Efforts must be measurable and targets need to be set Steps 2 and the last one could be served by giving us back our recycling depot, which you took away without consultation. All that money and we can’t have a new recycling depot. Citizens are already carbon taxed on many levels both federally and provincially. In addition the city is revenue positive when i comes to electrical utilities. This climate campaign is very poorly conceived. Changes can be done at the time of normal replacement unless a business case can be made for earlier replacement. The electricity still has to be generated. The ecological costs of the generation and transmission need to be considered (see Site C Dam).
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